Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• قوقوروس (kukurus)

Noun

قوقوروز • ‎(kukuruz)

1. corn
2. maize

Descendants

• Bashkir: кукуруз
• Russian: кукуруза
• Polish: kukurydza
• Serbo-Croatian: kukuruz
• Czech: kukuřice (the dialectal Czech terms turkyň, turkyňa, turkyně, and the Italian granturco, suggest that the consumption of maize spread to southeastern and east-central Europe from the Ottoman Empire)

References

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kokoroz”, in Nişanyan Sözlük